On 05/10/2012 04:52 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > No, really - please *do* do this. The fact that a lot of the software > coming out of RedHat development seems to be designed solely for their > use, including working around the missing/broken features of RPM, is > seriously annoying. Configuration belongs in /etc, we know this. We > have a well-designed and implemented set of tools in Debian based on > that standard. > I agree 100% with the above.
On 05/10/2012 05:22 AM, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Josh Triplett provided multiple technical reasons why etc-overrides-lib > is preferable. The ONLY technical reason you gave to prefer traditional > conffiles was that there already is a "set of tools" for that in Debian. > No, it's because this way, I am warned by the package manager of a change on the default file, and I can merge by hand when I see it. Otherwise, you are silently changing the default, and potentially, I will miss the new options. Besides this, configuration files in /etc is written in the stones of our bible^Wpolicy-manual. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fac0c9d.2070...@debian.org